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Samsung has announced that it will be showing off new content for its Smart TVs at the IFA show in Berlin next month. The company will be debuting a number of game titles as well as Skype video chat with HD support and group chat. How the move will affect Google's Android TV efforts announced earlier this year is still unclear, but for casual gamers Samsung's move may appease minimalists who...

Android powered Smart TV hopes for amazing user experience
In Las Vegas at CES Hisense announced their all new VIDAA series Smart TV's, which happen to be powered by Android. The VIDAA series will come in three different size LED models, a 50, 55, and 65 and will be bringing users an experience that simply does not exist in this category of products so far. Featuring multi-core processing and...

Samsung is setting up to launch a new service at MWC called "TV Discovery", which is supposed to help users find video and live TV content with their devices. Similarly to what HTC just announced with its own TV offerings on the One, Samsung will use its service to aggregate content from multiple sources to be streamed to your devices. The goal is to bring live TV, video on-demand and online...

Will 2013 be the year we see Android truly infiltrate the living room? It's possible, and Archos has come out swinging with their new TV Connect device unveiled today. In simple terms, the TV connect puts an Android based Smart TV experience onto your existing, non-smart, HDTV. Kind of like Google TV, except, it isn't Google TV. Confused yet?
What this is, is the first "multitouch Android on...

Not content with waiting until next week to unveil CES bound products, LG has pulled the wraps off some of their latest Smart TV's. We already know that LG is taking some new Google TV hardware to Las Vegas, but these TV sets aren't those. But, despite lacking a direct Android connection, they still give us cause for interest.
The new LG Cinema 3D range includes this rather handsome looking...

LG has just announced that it will be releasing a new line of TV's powered by Google TV 3.0 software in the first half of 2013. The new units, which you can see are quite slim and interestingly designed, will come in several different sizes from 42 to 60 inches. Running Google TV integrated in the panel itself, LG claims it will have voice recognition "beyond simple voice input." With two new...

OnLive this morning announced that as of today it's being integrated into the Google TV build on the LG G2 Smart TV. Updates should be delivered over the air today, and it'll be preinstalled on all future LG Google TVs.
The LG G2 comes in a couple of flavors -- a 47-inch monitor for $1,699, and a 54.6-inch set at $2,299.
The OnLive gaming service also is preinstalled on the Vizio CoStar Google...

Despite not being available yet in the UK, British newspaper The Guardian have gone ahead and developed a Google TV application currently in beta. Naturally it will only be available in the US on Google TV, but as it is accessed through the browser at gtv.guardiannews.com, desktop users can also take a peek.
Seems that The Guardian chose Google TV first because Chrome allows them to build an...

There are lots of ways share information between your Android smartphone and a device like a smart TV or computer, but the folks at Clik have just made it easier than ever. They're the same people behind Kik messenger, and their new Clik Smart TV Platform launching today shows the same style of innovation and attention to detail we've come to know from them. It's a software platform for folks...

If you're a new AT&T Galaxy S II owner, Samsung is willing to trade you $25 worth of free Media Hub content for some of your feedback. The Media Hub Beta program, which launches today, adds integration between your Galaxy S II (AT&T's model only, at the moment) and your 2011 Samsung Smart TV: purchase a movie or TV show from your phone, and watch it on your TV's built in Media Hub app....

We're sitting in on the Google TV session this afternoon at Google IO and just got our first look at Android 3.1 Honeycomb on the platform. Announced during the Day 1 keynote on Tuesday, Honeycomb on Google TV will bring full Android compatibility at the 12-foot level. That means full Android access on your TV, including Android applications and the full Android Market.In addition, Google TV will...

Samsung is rumored to be integrating its televisions with Google TV, and an announcement is possible in January. We've already seen products from Sony and Logitech, but Samsung's entrance to the space would be huge as they are the world's largest television maker. A move like this makes sense for Samsung; it has been bullish on Android with their widely successful Galaxy S phones and newly...

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